Every product that was in the first four SOA Collections is there:
* Friendship
* Holiday Magic (except the Holiday Flourishes stamp set)
* Young at Heart
* Beautiful World

PLUS we have a surprise for you! Catherine has created an exclusive new die set to go with the beautiful "Wonderful Wreath" stamp set just released in the last SOA collection, the Lovely Notes Collection! It's designed to fussy cut out the glorious new wreath and all the accompanying shapes in the stamp set. How awesome is that!?! So if you already have the Lovely Notes Collection then this die is for you! And if you don't... no worries! The contents of the Lovely Notes box will be found in the store very soon!

So I thought I'd show off a few of the dies in that new die set today and share a brand new card using lots more SOA fun...

On my card not only did I feature the brand new "Wonderful Wreath Dies" but I also used Catherine Pooler Designs' "And Dies" and the fun "Bright Baubles" stamp set released in the Holiday Magic Collection made by Neat & Tangled.

A wreath isn't just for the holidays... it's for all year round! Including birthdays... PLUS it works with all kinds of other stamps too!

For the above card I used the small leaves from the "Eva's Favorite Flowers" stamp set from Winnie & Walter and then used a few other stamp from the set to complete my image. I also used the corresponding "Eva's Favorite Flowers Dies", the fun birthday sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps' set "Young at Heart" and the sweet birthday dies form the "Birthday Journal Card Dies" from SugarPea Designs. All of the above stamps and dies will be on sale in the shop!

THE ADVANTAGES OF THE STAMP Of APPROVAL BOX...

Even though you can get all these products individually in the shop, it’s still “better” to get the Stamp of Approval collections... you get the free PDF, plus you get loads of products for $97 (the last box was retail $130 and the holiday is $135!!!) and it’s like a little present to yourself because it comes in a sweet box with some notes from Catherine!

GIVEAWAY TIME!

Comment to WIN! You have THREE (3) chances to WIN a $25.00 gift certificate to shop just for leaving a comment! You have until Thursday September 1st at12 noon EST11:59pm EST to comment to win. Catherine will announce all three winners on her blog that day. The more comments... the more chances to WIN!

The store will open this afternoon and to get notified, please subscribe to Catherine's newsletter RIGHT HERE on her blog. Catherine will be sending out an email when the store is open PLUS you will get free tutorials, PDFs, downloads, etc. for being subscriber! Hooray!

We are less than a week left of summer before school starts here in our
stretch of Alberta. And that to me, signals that Autumn is just around the
corner. It’s my favourite season for sure… beautiful fall colours spread across
the trees and scrubs and the nights are cool and that makes it easier to
sleep!

So in honour of Autumn fast approaching, I’ve made a super simple fall
inspired card creation today to share with you using the Power Poppy new
release clear stamp set, “Feeling Fall”…

The Dream Team & our guest designers are hard at work getting the newest and most fabulous Stamp of Approval holiday
box card creations ready for next month’s release. Yup… it’s that time ALREADY!

What is Stamp of Approval you ask? It's a box of
specially curated stamps and dies that are designed to coordinated
perfectly together that arrives in your mailbox. It contains many, many
hours of creative fun! When you purchase your box, you also receive a
beautiful PDF document that contains all kinds of card designs for you
to replicate!

Wanna WIN the next Stamp of Approval

box before you can
buy it???

All you have to do is create a card using the previous SOA
box contents, using the “Lovely Notes” collection and link it up on
Catherine’s blog right here. All the rules are listed over on her blog as to
how you can play along.

To showcase the box, I thought I’d share a brand new card using the
“Lovely Notes” Collection just for you today! This collection contains
this pretty wreath image and lots of other cool images and sentiments (6
stamp sets and 2 die sets to be exact!)

So come and join me and create a brand new SOA card and share it with us!
You might just WIN that new box of goodies before anyone can even buy it!

Catherine Pooler will
be opening her shop sometime towards the end of the month. Inside the shop,
she’ll not only be including some of the oldest Stamp of Approval kit contents
(stamps, dies & stencils) but also some of her own stamp & die designs,
other wise known as Catherine Pooler Designs. Be sure to stay tuned for that
announcement soon!

If you’d like to WIN one of the $25 gift certificates to Catherine’s shop,
come and play along with the StampNation “Heat It Up” classes held all summer long and
participate in them all! Two winners will be chosen to WIN one of 2 gift
certificates offered up as prizes for the class. Come and play along to
win!

For more information on how to join StampNation, click the image below!

Each of these new clear stamp sets is packed full of detailed, gorgeous
images and verb-acious sentiments! Each one of these stamp collections is now
available in the Power Poppy
Shop!

For my final card, I wanted so badly to go back and create with the gorgeous
new wheat image so I took it and paired it up with the lovely Coneflower also
included in this same stamp set. Doesn’t it just stay “Fall” to you?!?

I played around with my Derwent Inktense Pencils and some watercolour paper
for my card front. I really wanted the texture of the paper play with my
pencils so I only added a small amount of additional texture using an embossed
piece of water colour paper to the edge.

Now come and check out what the rest of the Bloom Brigade has been up
to using these glorious new stamp sets…

It’s Day 3 of our release here at Power Poppy!
Today introduces our final new clear stamp set to you but stay tuned! Tomorrow
we have one final blog hop to inspire you PLUS we have some shopping deets to
share too! All three of our new stamp sets go on sale TOMORROW!

Welly, welly, well... what do we have here? It’s three sweet vignettes with
pumpkin, maple, and a plucky plaid! Meant to get that fall vibe kickin’ on your
craft table, you'll find fun sentiments plus: a stack of decorated pumpkins and
a mysterious black cat; a trio of gourds, fall berries, and what has GOT to be a
pumpkin spice latte; and stylish plaid wellies perfect for a day of raking the
leaves of that gorgeous Maple tree.

I just ADORE the sweet little stack of pumpkins and the darling little black
cat peeking from behind them so I chose to highlight them with a full moon back
drop!

I used Copics to colour in everything here. I using a simple white gel pen
to add the stars over top of my dark blue sky.

A little shimmery moon never hurt anyone…

Now come and check out what the rest of the Bloom Brigade has been up
to using this glorious new fall inspired stamp set…

Hot on the heels of the digital release of our Sunshine of My Life bouquet, and paired up with the big
splashy stem from Sunflower Power, we have heaps of praise for sunflowers. All
new sentiments are included in this new stamp set to mix and match to set the
right tone for your cardmaking.

A trio of prairie-plucked stems to complement our newest Instant Garden
digital release, Pure
Prairie Bouquet. This set is all about spreading an easy-going vibe
and good feelings; from wheat lazily blowing in the breeze to those prairie
populists coneflower and smooth aster, this set offers approachable imagery and
sentiments that just plain cheer folks up.

I chose to use the no-line colouring technique for my card today. I first
stamped it in Memento “Desert Sand” ink and then coloured it using a variety of
Copic Markers and Prismacolor Premier Pencils. I just love the end result of
the blended markers with the sharp details of the coloured pencils!

Now come and check out what the rest of the Bloom Brigade has been up to
using this glorious new stamp set…

Howdy my fellow Power Poppy lovers! It’s been SO long since
I've posted here! I’ve been on a little creative vacation plus also a Scout Summer
Camp vacation too! Sometimes you just need some down time to recharge that
creative battery – well, that’s what I’ve been up too!

Today some of the Bloom Brigade and also the Instant
Gardners are going to be sharing their newest creations using the super
delicious… “Apples in
Season” digital stamp set (plus a few other amazing stamp sets)!

This delectable new digital stamp set includes this impressive spray of
apples and apple blossoms and a quote from Mother Theresa.

Not only do we have a new digi for you today but we’re also beginning our
newest monthly challenge for August, the Power
& Spark Challenge. This month’s challenge is all about CASEing! All you need to do is pick a Power Poppy creation from somewhere in blog land – can be by ANY designer at all and be inspired by it, creating your own spin on the original design. For more information and the rules for this challenge, you can visit the Power Poppy Blog.

What’s CASEing you say? It’s the acronym for:
Copy And
Steal Everything! But in our
case, we are calling it the Copy, Steal & Inspire Challenge!

For my card I decided to CASE my fellow Bloom Brigader, Miss
Katie
Sims! I just love her vintage style so I chose THIS CARD to Copy, Steal & be Inspired by!

I chose to copy & steal her basic card design and then go from there. Katie used the
very masculine “Olive & Oak” digital stamp to
feature on her card so I traded it up for our lovely new “Apples in
Season” digital image.